One area of photography that looks fun although very intimidating is street photography. As Taunya and I strolled the beach in Florence I thought I would try my hand at capturing some candid shots of people on the beach. I had initially planned when we left our room that I was going to take some …
The Shasta Valley Wildlife Refuge is located in between Montague, CA and the Shasta Valley. I usually go out to this refuge for the fly fishing on Trout Lake and Bass Lake. I’ve seen pheasants here before but didn’t see any this day. I was using my D7000 with my Nikon 300mm F/4 lens. I had …
Ever since I took the excursion over to the Lower Klamath NWR to photograph the wildlife I have been wanting to purchase the Nikon 300mm f/4 to make wildlife photography more enjoyable. I read many reviews of this lens and all of them spoke very highly of its quality and sharpness. With my budget I knew a 300mm f/2.8 …
This afternoon I went out to the Shasta Valley to meet with a friend of mine who owns the Cowley Ranch. I’ve wanted to come out and photograph his barn for some time. It has been there since the 1800s and has a really cool gazebo tower that you can climb up into. I didn’t have time today …
Spent an enjoyable, although very cold, evening photographing Tyler and the Miner soccer team this past Tuesday evening, January 22nd. It was a well fought and played game from both teams. Anderson ended up edging out the Miners 4-3. There were some great saves by the goalie, and some great plays on offense and defense. …
It was a beautiful afternoon on Saturday and Christian and Daniel were bugging me to take them to ride their bikes. So Tyler and I took the opportunity to take some photographs out at Greenhorn park at the reservoir, while they road around the reservoir on the paved trail. It was about 2pm when we headed over …
A mentor friend of mine, Tom, was kind enough to make some helpful suggestions on the pictures I had taken last Saturday. Here are five of the pictures after I followed his suggestions to make them better. I love the changes I was able to make to these photographs. I think they look better. What are …
In 1908 President Theodore Roosevelt established the Lower Klamath National Wildlife refuge as the first waterfowl refuge in the United States. I’ve had several fellow photographers tell me about shooting wildlife photographs at this refuge and the great experience it can be. So early, well okay so it was about 10am when I got up…..honestly …
Out past Montague, CA in an area called Little Shasta Valley there is a church that was built in 1877-1878 by the early pioneers to this area. It is in a most picturesque setting with surrounding ranches and a commanding view of majestic Mt. Shasta. This church as you can see is a favorite setting …